Original text of motion submitted by North East Derbyshire CLP to Labour Party Conference. The motion was composited and then remitted in favour of a statement from the National Executive Committee, which included all the main points of this motion, which was also the subject of a speech by Harry Barnes, MP for North East Derbyshire and Joint President of LFIQ.
I joined the Labour Party in 1976 and the ILP (Independent Labour Publications) in 1978. I studied International Relations with French at Sussex and was full-time Convenor for Sussex Area NUS. After periods of work as a trainee station manager, co-op education officer, FE lecturer, I started work with Harry Barnes MP in 1987. We organised London Against the Poll Tax in the late 80s. Ireland has been a major interest and I was an organiser of the British-Irish Peace Train Organisation (which assembled broad coalition against terrorism) and currently Chair of the cross-party New Dialogue peace group. Freelance journalist. … Continue reading Gary Kent, Director
I joined the Party in 76 and was active in the YS until going onto college. I supported the paper Socialist Organiser until 1989 and set up Socialist Students in NOLS. From then I went into the politics of women in sport and set up the Northern League of womens football and a team which made it to the FA Women’s Premiership. In 2002 I published a novelised account of the struggles of working class women footballers called Kicking The Boys Balls. I am a member of Reading East and PCS.
I was born in North Shields and became a socialist in 1979 as a volunteer in Days of Hope bookshop in Newcastle. I joined the Labour Party in 1980 and have been a member of Natfhe since 1991. I helped set up the Merseyside Museum of Labour History in 1984 (now the Museum of Liverpool Life). I was the co-editor of the US journal ‘New Politics: a journal of socialist thought’ and an editor of the UK journal ‘Historical Materialism’. My research work has focussed on the history of socialist thought and the political leadership of social movements. I co-edited … Continue reading Alan Johnson, Research and Publications Officer